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"Book about a boy , I think his name was Jonny. In an adventure he finds a beagle. Takes him home and puts mercurochrome or iodine on the dogs wounds and the dog bites him out of pain, the boy uses some of the iodine on himself. -Later in the book he tries to teach the dog how to hunt for truffles, like pigs do. "